Shooshy is tired @shooshy@tech.lgbt

Please make sure to always report posts or accounts if you notice something bad, so that admins can have a loot at it, otherwise we can only base decisions off what we see, which may not be the same as what you see.

I don't know if I have a thesis here, really. Software, "the culture," etc... Are not more important than other people. All social media has a tendency to mask the fact that nearly every "rando" is in fact a person, just asking for your respect and consideration. If someone approaches you in good faith, you should respond in kind.

Mastodon dot social, for example, represents possibly the worst of the entire network and yet it lingers in the federation of most servers. It's basically Twitter. And in case that seemed like a compliment, it wasn't.

So I think the software actively discouraging people from using or creating features like local-only posts, allowlists, instance blocks, and defederation, is pretty sinister. Folks say you should curate your own experience but Mastodon itself tries to keep you from doing it

I've done a lot to make this specific corner of Fedi feel a lot better but I don't necessarily think it's unfair for someone to say they don't have the mental energy or the time to do the same

The design of mastodon's software specifically encourages the exact kind of stuff that keeps this place from truly becoming better than the corporate alternatives

Hey y'all, I'm not gonna migrate accounts, but I am probably gonna start using https://puppy.cafe/@shooshy as my main, so you may have gotten a follow request from there
I'll probably just be using this account for moderation duties on tech.lgbt mainly, from now on